A book, article or piece of text gets a Lexile text measure when it's analyzed by MetaMetrics. For example, the first "Harry Potter" book measures 880L, so it's called an 880 Lexile book. A Lexile text measure is based on two strong predictors of how difficult a text is to comprehend: word frequency and sentence length. Many other factors affect the relationship between a reader and a book, including its content, the age and interests of the reader, and the design of the actual book. The Lexile text measure is a good starting point in the book-selection process, with these other factors then being considered. Lexile text measures are rounded to the nearest 10L. Text measures at or below 0L are reported as BR for Beginning Reader.
With the Six Shifts, it is important to make sure the texts given to students are grade-appropriate. Students need to read texts that are accessible to them, but not so easy there is no challenge in the task. One of the biggest problems faced in education today is the oversimplification of reading. Students aren't being challenged to read complex texts and, as a result, when they go off to college they aren't able to comprehend the difficult material presented to them.
Lexiling is a way to quantitatively measure the difficulty of a passage. In keeping with the intent of the Six Shifts, we need to make sure the material we provide to students falls within the appropriate lexile levels.
Lexile.com is a tool you can use to determine the lexile level of the material you want to assign to your students. You can use the service free of charger, but you do have to create an account.
If you find a passage you may want to assign to your students, you need to do the following:
Copy a passage by highlighting the text, right clicking on it, and selecting copy
Open a Word document and paste the text into the document.
Save the file as a .txt file to your desktop
On the lexile.com website, hover over the Lexile Tools option and select Lexile Analyzer
Click the "Browse" button, find the file you've just saved to your desktop, and upload it to the analyzer.
Click on the "Submit" button
Once the file processes, you will see a column on the left side of the webpage.
Look for the number followed by the letter "L"
This is your text's lexile level
To determine whether or not your text is appropriate for your grade level, you can review the chart below.
A book, article or piece of text gets a Lexile text measure when it's analyzed by MetaMetrics. For example, the first "Harry Potter" book measures 880L, so it's called an 880 Lexile book. A Lexile text measure is based on two strong predictors of how difficult a text is to comprehend: word frequency and sentence length. Many other factors affect the relationship between a reader and a book, including its content, the age and interests of the reader, and the design of the actual book. The Lexile text measure is a good starting point in the book-selection process, with these other factors then being considered. Lexile text measures are rounded to the nearest 10L. Text measures at or below 0L are reported as BR for Beginning Reader.
With the Six Shifts, it is important to make sure the texts given to students are grade-appropriate. Students need to read texts that are accessible to them, but not so easy there is no challenge in the task. One of the biggest problems faced in education today is the oversimplification of reading. Students aren't being challenged to read complex texts and, as a result, when they go off to college they aren't able to comprehend the difficult material presented to them.
Lexiling is a way to quantitatively measure the difficulty of a passage. In keeping with the intent of the Six Shifts, we need to make sure the material we provide to students falls within the appropriate lexile levels.
Lexile.com is a tool you can use to determine the lexile level of the material you want to assign to your students. You can use the service free of charger, but you do have to create an account.
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Lexile.com
If you find a passage you may want to assign to your students, you need to do the following:
Copy a passage by highlighting the text, right clicking on it, and selecting copy
Open a Word document and paste the text into the document.
Save the file as a .txt file to your desktop
On the lexile.com website, hover over the Lexile Tools option and select Lexile Analyzer
Click the "Browse" button, find the file you've just saved to your desktop, and upload it to the analyzer.
Click on the "Submit" button
Once the file processes, you will see a column on the left side of the webpage.
Look for the number followed by the letter "L"
This is your text's lexile level
To determine whether or not your text is appropriate for your grade level, you can review the chart below.
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